This afternoon I presented at the Belgium VMUG event. My presentation is called āManaging VMware vSphere 4 with The Virtualization EcoShell.ā, here are the slides.
Friday, June 19. 2009
Drive PowerCLI to the max
PowerShell PowerBoots
PowerBoots makes it easier for scripters to create graphical user interfaces in PowerShell, exposing much of the power of WPF to PowerShell in a simple syntax which supports events, threading, and much, much, more.
PowerBoots is written as a script module which dynamically generates functions into static script files for each WPF control, combined with a compiled module called PoshWpf which was originally part of PoshConsole (and includes the Out-Wpf cmdlet and New-BootsWindow cmdlets among others) ... the module enables threaded UIs as well as enabling support for styles, control templates and data templates.
Friday, June 12. 2009
Dry Run āManaging VMware vSphere 4 with The Virtualization EcoShellā
At the end of the VMware Fast-track course I delivered this week, I did a Dry Run āManaging VMware vSphere 4 with The Virtualization EcoShellā which I will present next week at the Belgium User Group event. If you didnāt sign up yet and youāre interested in this free event you can register here. Maybe we can meet up and enjoy one of those Palm beers. All the content will be delivered in English.
Monday, June 8. 2009
Adding actions to the Virtualization EcoShell
Thursday, June 4. 2009
Carterās PowerCLI webinar brings us the Ready Time Monitor
This morning I replayed the June 2009 PowerCLI Webinar. Carters Shanklinās WebEx session is awesome, he demoed a well written series of PowerShell scripts. With one of his scripts youāre able to collect the %RDY time statistics for all your Virtual Machines. The most common cause of high ready time is trying to get too much work out of too little hardware. Often this condition is observable when ready time is high and total host CPU utilization is also very high. The only fix for this is to back off the load on the system. VMs should be migrated off or processor resources should be increased. I combined Carterās script with a new feature in PowerShell 2.0, the Out-GridView which displays the ready timeĀ information in a real cool Data Grid.
Get-VM
| Select Name, @{ N="Summation"; E={($_ | Get-Stat -stat cpu.ready.summation -maxsamples 1 -intervalmins 5 | select -first 1).Value} } | Sort -property Summation -Descending | Out-GridViewTuesday, June 2. 2009
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